Kris Inwood
Campus: Guelph
Office: 716 MacKinnon Building
Email: kinwood@uoguelph.ca
In recent and current work I examine aspects of industrialization, inequality and the standard of living in nineteenth and twentieth century Britain, Canada and other former ‘settler’ colonies. I have some familiarity with quantitative method and systematic sources such as wages, wills, military enlistment records and the census. Currently I direct a large project based in the Canadian census and a comparative analysis of soldiers recruited across the British Empire 1914-1918.
Work in progress (October 07):
- “Anyone not on the list might as well be dead”: First Nations and the Censuses of Canada, 1851-1901, with M. Hamilton
- Internal Economies of Scale and Industrial Productivity: How Much Did Scale Matter, with I. Keay
- Government Policy and the Origins of the Canadian Iron and Steel Industry
- Inequality and Physical Well-being among Coloured and White South Africans before 1900, with O. Masakure
Most recent publications:
- “The Devil Is in the Details: Assessing Early Industrial Performance across International Borders”, Cliometrica forthcoming, with I. Keay
- “The Great Transformation: A Long-Run Perspective on Physical Well-Being in Canada”, Economics and Human Biology, vol. 5 no. 2 (2007), pp. 204-228, with J. Cranfield
- “Hecksher-Ohlin in Canada: New Estimates of Regional Wages and Land Prices”, Australian Economic History Review, vol. 47 no. 1 (Feb. 2007), pp. 22-48, with H. Emery and H. Thille